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  • All thorough-going dancers will now have nothing but the _valse à trois temps_, which requires both partners to be exactly in time both with one another and the music, and a partner who can only dance the old _deux temps_, or whose _trois temps_ step is faulty, is not very likely, if a man, to be favored with many "rounds," or if a lady to be asked for them.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

  • "Time & Clouds," the resulting pas de trois, is an incisive work set to erratic harp and cackling soprano.

    From Lucy Bowen McCauley, a retrospective of great leaps Rebecca Ritzel 2010

  • In English, “thrice” can mean both three times and many times; in French, trois is three and très is very: shadows, perhaps, of our own “one, two, many” past.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • In English, “thrice” can mean both three times and many times; in French, trois is three and très is very: shadows, perhaps, of our own “one, two, many” past.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • In English, “thrice” can mean both three times and many times; in French, trois is three and très is very: shadows, perhaps, of our own “one, two, many” past.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The key to this fascinating Manhattan ménage a trois is the three lead characters and their relationships are put out their with no fan fare for readers to accept and enjoy or not.

    One + One = Three-Sasha James « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • Likewise, what June stands to obtain from this ménage a trois is the drama queen's pleasure of wishing to be the focus of a book she hasn't the gift to write herself.

    A Look Back at HENRY & JUNE 2008

  • Likewise, what June stands to obtain from this ménage a trois is the drama queen's pleasure of wishing to be the focus of a book she hasn't the gift to write herself.

    Archive 2008-03-09 2008

  • TV Guide Magazine: How have fans who've followed you since your Sister, Sister days reacted to seeing you as Melanie, a character who just last week was considering a ménage à trois to spice up her marriage?

    Tia Mowry Gets Back in The Game 2011

  • February 24, 2009 at 10: 46 PM your baby, 10: 46 PM, ain't no ronnie ... maybe she wants to be in the top 5 ... join duplicate 10: 14 in your LOG CABIN Ménage à trois!!

    Great Speech 2009

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  • the magical time during which 'trois' is listed times is now. make a wish.

    August 4, 2008

  • Done.

    August 4, 2008

  • -noun

    three (in scrabble dictionary)

    June 9, 2009